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Job announcement :: Invasive Species Extension Coordinator

April 12, 2023
By Gale Perez
Job no: 526479 Work type: Staff Full-Time Location: Main Campus (Gainesville, FL) Categories: Communications/Public Relations/Marketing, Office/Administrative/Fiscal Support Department:60460000 - AG-SCHL FOR, FISH, & GEOMATICS Application closes: May 1, 2023 Classification Title: Communications Spec...
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Figure 1. Dose–responses curves of branched broomrape and Egyptian broomrape seed germination in response to doses of three different ammonium products under three exposure durations of 10 minutes, one hour, and 24 hours. A three-parameter logistic model (Eq.1) was fitted to germination data. Lines are fitted values, and solid circles indicate observed germination averaged across two experimental runs with three replicates each (i.e., n =6). Error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals. Model parameter esti
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Farm machinery sanitation: a way to reduce broomrape seed spread among fields

April 3, 2023
By Brad Hanson
California is the largest producer of processing tomato in the US (Winans et al. 2020). However, the profitability of the tomato industry in California is seriously threatened due to the presence of the parasitic weed branched and Egyptian broomrape (https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.
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